Electrochemical Valence‐Regulated Biomimetic Nanozymes for Breast Cancer Metabolism Inhibition and Potentiated Catalytic Immunotherapy
ABSTRACT Manganese oxide (MnO x ) nanozymes have garnered significant attention for their ability to respond to the tumor microenvironment (TME) and stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway activation. However, they often suffer from a weak direct tumor‐killing capacity due to low enzymatic activity and from attenuated anti‐tumor immunity resulting from STING activation‐induced excessive programmed death‐ligand 1 (PD‐L1) expression. In this study, we fabricated MnO x nanozymes with precisely controllable valence states via electrochemical valence regulation to modulate their oxidase‐like activity. Notably, M‐MnOx, with a bulk Mn oxidation state of +3.62, a near‐surface Mn oxidation state of approximately +3.23, 19.1% oxygen vacancies, and a reduced Mn−O coordination number of 4.7, exhibited the highest oxidase‐like activity and was therefore selected for cancer therapy. This nanozyme was subsequently wrapped with a T lymphocyte membrane (TCM) to form biomimetic nanozymes (TMO). TMO efficiently targets tumors and induces immunogenic cell death via oxidase catalytic therapy, while also activating the cGAS‐STING pathway and T cells for tumor killing. Furthermore, TMO competitively binds to tumor cell highly expressed PD‐L1 to alleviate T cell immune suppression. Consequently, TMO demonstrates excellent tumor‐killing efficacy and inhibits recurrence in vivo. This research offers a new perspective for the construction of manganese‐based nanomaterials.
Authors
- Wei Cai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9239-6687)
- Kelong Fan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6285-1933)
- Zihang Yu
- Shipeng Ning (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3485-6598)
- Pengyuan Qi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2042-915X)
- Xianqing Wei
- Meng Suo
- Shengxin Ye
- You Pan
- Mingpu Yang
- Yuping Tan
- Xiangqin Meng
Institutions
- Union Hospital (HK)
- Guangxi Medical University (CN)
- City University of New York (US)
- Institute of Biophysics (CN)
- The Second Nanning People's Hospital (CN)
- Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University (CN)
- Tongji Hospital (CN)
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Exploration
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/exp2.70224
- Primary Topic
- Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province